Posted on 10/27/2002 7:03:39 AM PST by PJ-Comix
One of things I often do is flip idly through books at the library. Okay, call me a bookworm gathering bits of useless information. However, one of the bits of information that seems to stick out in my mind was something in a book written by a close personal friend of the Hubert Humphrey after his death. I remember that the author, who was also a doctor, had a whole chapter in the book in which he puts Walter Mondale over the coals for betraying Hubert Humphrey. I believe it had to do with either the 1992 or 1996 election in which Humphrey begged Mondale for his support but Mondale refused to lift a finger to help Humphrey despite the fact that Humphrey was the one who was instrumental in getting Mondale into politics.
I did some searching on the web and it turns out that this book is called The Triumph and the Tragedy of the Humphrey I Knew by Edgar Berman. I tried to find this book on the local Broward County online library catalog but, unfortunately, the system is currently down. More than likely this book should be available in Minnesota libraries so could you MN Freepers check it out of the library if you see it (many large libraries now open on Sundays)? When you see the chapter I am referring to, please post the details here.
There is something but I don't know what. Mondale was on the steering committee and originally attended all the meetings. Then Mondale quit coming to the meetings, and interviewer for the library asks O'Brien about the significance. O'Brien says Mondale was "out in the field" but that seems quite odd. He then dodges further discussion about Mondale.
McCarthy refused to do any more than send a letter to the SOS of New York requesting his name be removed from the ballot, which it wasn't. This split the democrat vote in New York and gave Nixon the edge.
I will do some more searching but I did find this out. I had to read the entire interview before I got this information, which was near the end. ZZZZZZzzzzzzz.
Anyway, tomorrow I hope to find that book and get the answers. It's amazing how something like that can come back at you years later. I never would have even remembered it if Mondull wasn't back in the news. And the day I saw that info in that book, I must have scanned several thousand pages of at least a score of other books. I do a lot of that. I'll go to the library and spend at least 6 hours there leisurely mainlining info from scores of books. To many it might seem like a silly activity but every once in a while, you can glean a diamond of information.
BTW, something like this happened to me 10 years ago. Somehow I remember reading a couple of very disparate bits of information years apart that seemed to indicate that Wally George was married for a brief period to two different women at the same time. I found this interesting so I searched deep into microfilm records and found out that I was WRONG! Wally had actually been legally married to THREE different women at the same time for a period of about a couple of weeks (Trigamy?). Anyway, I passed this info along to the National Enquirer and they published it since Wally's daughter is actress, Rebecca DeMornay. Hey, they actually paid me $350 for that info!!!
Alls I know is, that in Lake Wobegon, the Lutherans vote Republican to spite the Catholics who vote Democrat. Garrison Keillor told me so!
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